illspirit

Draw distance looks pretty massive to me. Just look at this XBox screenshot:

That tall building in the background is like a kilometer away, and can't be seen on the PS2 until well past halfway to it from where the pic is taken. The PC version screens draw just as far, though the scale isn't as easy to distinguish as the above. Although this one looks rather impressive. Just look at the trees on the far side of the freeway junction...

GTA3Freak-2001

Look just because they mention a specific figure doesn't mean it is going to be exactly the same, what it comes down to is that the draw distance will be so much better then PS2 and that's all I care about.

Jordan

I took that screen through a connection straight from my PS2 to my camcorder to my PC. I did enter the really sunny cheat, too, to make sure that the smog/fog wouldn't be a problem in comparison. Compare to this:

GTAGuy

I'm glad that Rockstar are really trying to make a game that is in every way better than the PS2 version. Perhaps they would have done this same thing to VC, if the had put more devotion into the PS2 version than just one year at basically making a GTA3 with a bigger city and a couple extra features. Perhaps they thought that SA is truly worthy of being played in the highest quality possible.

salibaba

d8cam thanx alot fot that screenshot, its a bit better than the other one that wosn taken from the wrong angle. You can really do a proper comparison, I would have thought you would at least be able to see all of that first building, but the most I can make out is the dark shape of it in the fog. If I were to put the PS2 shot on one monitor and put the PC on on the other monitor for comparison, even my dog would be able to tell the difference and pick the PC screenie. In this thread ive seen the best comparison and the best way to show how the PC surpasses the PS2 graphics in every way, anyone who thinks that the PS2 one is better must be blind.

JD1

With this comparison I am very satisfied with the new draw distance... unless the screenshots are just "false hope" like it happens with many games, but I doubt it.I hope the game at the end will be like we have seen it.